Social Hardware

Glucose chat is a cross platform web browser based captive portal and chat wireless ap administration system. It allows for the owner of a wireless node to administer it through the chat interface, by limiting bandwidth, blacklisting certain computers and temporarily removing others from the network. It has a gui interface as well as text based commands similar to irc chat commands. It is built on top of Openwrt wireless, using javascript, lighthttpd, php, sh, and linux IPTables. Thesis abstract Project